Northeast Regional Conservation Committee  High Speed Rail Task Force

High Speed Trains

• Currently Operating in the 9 State Northeast Region

  • Acela Express (Boston-New York-Washington)

    • Comprehensive background and technical information from the TGVweb Site

    • Photographic travelogues of the Inaugural Revenue Run on December 11, 2000 from the Trainweb Site

    • Virtual Tour of the train by means of 360°x360° immersion photographs from the 360360.com Web Site

  • Metroliner [Current Trains] (New York-Washington)

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• Under Construction

  • Rohr Turboliner III (New York-Albany-Buffalo)

    • High Speed Rail from NY-DOT

    • Amtrak RTL Turboliners from Greater Capital District Railfan Association

• Historic High Speed Trains within the 9 State Northeast Region

  • Metroliner [Original Trains] (New York-Washington)

    • First Metroliner Timetable issued by Penn Central RR on January 16, 1969

    • Metroliner Timetables issued June 2, 1969 & July 14, 1969, also three Metroliner Postcards

    • Pictures from Jim Hebner's Amtrak Photo Archives

  • United Aircraft Turbos (New York-Boston)

    • Pictures from Jim Hebner's Amtrak Photo Archives

    • Turbotrain by United Aircraft section of Sikorski Archives (Non-Profit Organization)

  • Rohr Turbos (New York-Albany)

    • New York State's High Speed Rail Milestones from NY-DOT

    • Pictures from Jim Hebner's Amtrak Photo Archives

    • Amtrak RTL Turboliners from Greater Capital District Railfan Association

  • ANF Turbos

    • Pictures from Jim Hebner's Amtrak Photo Archives

  • Budd Turboliner

    • World's first turbine-powered railcar (slow-loading scan of a 1966 brochure)

• Proposed High Speed Trains for use in the United States

  • Bombardier  (Equipment Vendor Web Site)

    • Acela Express for operation on electrified lines

    • Jet Train for operation on non-electrified lines

  • Talgo  (Equipment Vendor Web Site)

• High Speed Trains elsewhere in the world

  • High Speed Trains section of World Travelers Net (Personal Web Site) 
            (The information on this site has not been reviewed by the NERCC-HSR Task Force)

  • TGVweb - French High Speed Rail (Personal Web Site) 
            (The information on this site has not been reviewed by the NERCC-HSR Task Force)

  • ICE/ICT pages - the high speed train in Germany and Switzerland (Personal Web Site) 
            (The information on this site has not been reviewed by the NERCC-HSR Task Force)

  • AVE Page - high speed train of Spain (Personal Web Site) 
            (The information on this site has not been reviewed by the NERCC-HSR Task Force)

  • AVE section of Bertram Wlasak's Homepage - high speed train of Spain (Personal Web Site) 
            (The information on this site has not been reviewed by the NERCC-HSR Task Force)

  • Tilting trains section of Bertram Wlasak's Homepage - Several high speed trains (Personal Web Site) 
            (The information on this site has not been reviewed by the NERCC-HSR Task Force)

  • XPT Page section of RailPage - high speed trains in Australia (Personal Web Site) 
            (The information on this site has not been reviewed by the NERCC-HSR Task Force)

  • byun byun Shinkansen - Japanese "Bullet Trains (Personal Web Site) 
            (The information on this site has not been reviewed by the NERCC-HSR Task Force)

  • Ever-Evolving Shikansen (January 2000) - Sumitomo Group Public Affairs Committee
            (The information on this site has not been reviewed by the NERCC-HSR Task Force)

  • Transrapid - Magnetic Levitation train in Shanghai (Equipment Vendor Web Site)
            (The information on this site has not been reviewed by the NERCC-HSR Task Force)

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